Can't watch your video for some reason. I assumed it had bone. Less impressed If no bone.

It has bone.

With anything better at cutting than a rapier, bone is not really such a big deal. I’ve cut a bit of pig with rib-bones in it; wielding a longsword, it was hard to tell whether you went through the bones or between them. Swords work. (Rapiers, though, really are poor cutting tools; but lunging through a thick piece of pork with fat and hide attached felt much like lunging through a creampuff—with decent lunging form I could hardly feel any resistance.)

Oh good god don't do it. If you want to get a sword, get a sword (Albion, or Arms and Armour make decent reproduction European swords which are actually swords).

If you want to buy a random sharpened piece of metal for hacking things up, get a machete.

Oh, I has plenty of da machete. I just prefer swords. I have held the CS swords and swung them around quite a bit. They are surprisingly well made replicas that are not meant as wall hangers. I Will check out Albion.

I'm gonna jump right in the middle here.
As we just introduced: Free Your Tensions, with the acronym FYT (pronounced as "Fight") here in the Netherlands.
As the name implies we "fight in order to free our tensions" and we do this through swordplay.

We don't teach you anything......we simply hope to inspire people to actually take up a real martial art.
All we provide is a safe environment where u can Hack and Bash away without worrying about hurting or getting hurt like a barbarian.

You can clearly see in the video WHY most martial arts consider "wrestling" the basis of all combat.
After the initial clash the stopping power of the sword is severly limited forcing players to resort to pushbattles and takedowns. (since we don't allow jointlocks for obvious reasons)

Bottomline:
1. you need space to get "stopping power" using a sword.
2. Stopping power lowers dramatically vs Armored opponents.
Stabbing "might" stop an opponent circumventing #1 if #2 is not an issue but still no guarantee.
Being stabbed is not the same as being dead or incapacitated, the stabbed one can still do something.

Well I'm not going to spam up this borad with a ton of videos, but the Cold Steel company produces just about any classic sword design you can imagine. Then they cut up pig carcasses and post the videos so you can see the might and fury.

Ever wonder about to efficacy of a saber vs. a Roman gladius? Scotish Claymore vs. Germanic Grosse Messer? They got it all on tape.

Originally Posted by Petter

I didn’t find the video all that impressive, for that matter; that meat didn’t look like it even had bone in it.

I noticed that too. The shaterring of the last two jaws while cutting meat impressed me though. While it may not be the most exacting test (Ultimate Warrior is terrible in that regard most of the time) it does demo the Claymore as a genuine zombie slayer.

I like that Arma video BTW. That rediculously clean cut through the deer's spine definitely shows the devistating power of these weapons. So glad I'm not a medieval peasant right now...